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Adwenturer About To Be Deported
Gained Money and Jewels
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_ by Trickery,
By SELFRIDGE HENNEGAN.
(Copyright, 1919, by the International
News Bureau, Inc.)
LONDON (by mail).—The British
anthorities are to be congrateulated
on the rapidity with which they are
clearing out the scum of the German
and other nations who found refuge
in Great Britain in pre-war days. No
city in the world has ever had to tol
erate what London submitted to be
fore- 1914, and the passing of the
aliens bill will make it impossible for
expelled foreigners ever to set foot
on English soil again.
Among the latest of the deportees is
& German waiter whq played many
parts in his time, his most successful
role being that of “Baron von Brock
er,” a cousin of the ex-Kaiser. His
real name was Stretf, and into his
three-and-forty years crowded more
adventure and episode than many
men do in a whole lifetime.
Well spoken, with nice manners and
rather handsome features, he had a
passion for women, and in the space
of a few years he claimed no fewer
than 100 wives and sweethearts all
over the country. Whether he ever
went through the actual form of mar
riage with half this number of his
vietims lawfully, 1 can nqt say, but it
is pretty certain that m.'uay of his vic
tims lived with him at some time or
other. He spent money to make
nioney, for robbery was the real mo
tive which inspired his aporous en
terprises.
In the West F'Fnd he held jobs at
several restaurants, and in this way
he became acquainted with those on
whom he had designs. Unsuspecting
visitors to London fell into his hands
and he had no difficulty in establish
ing friendship.
POURED LOVE IN VICTIMS’ EARS.
Like Landru, the French Blue
beard, he spoke loftily of his family's
wealth, and of estates to which he
was heir in California and other dis
tant lands. If asked why it was that
he followed the menial occupation, he
replied that this was the easiest way
‘'of acquiring the language of any
eountry,
His methods of fleecing the unpre
pared of their savings and valuables
was not original. He simply poured
love into their ears and captured the
hearts of his victims. Then he pitched
the usual tale of the family cheque
which never arrived, and by a variety
of plausible excuses and apologies 80~
Jicited aid from his gir! friends.
Domestic servants fell an easy prey
to his stories and fictions, and from
time to time he amassed considerable
snms, which he took care to bank.
Jewelry, too, found its way into his
safe, and he had a tidy bit put away
when he was thrown into prison.
Like all adventurers, Strett be
¥eved in fashionable dress, and those
who met him outside his working
hours could never believe that he was
one and the same individual. He
usually wore a morning coat, silk hat,
patent boots and spals, while a daz
zling imitation pearl pin was con
spicuously displayed on his tie.
How he managed to masquerade as
a modest German waiter one week
and the next as Baron Brocker, a
cousin of the ex-Kaiser, is his own
secret, for through, all his escapades
he managed to stear clear of the po
lice,
It was in his-own couniry that he
first started on his career of decep
tion, and after putting pald to tho ac
counts of numerous women in Berlin,
¥rankfort and other German towns
he tried his luck in Paris. Strett was
a great traveler and a cautious-eomne,’
at that, |
His courtships were invariably con.
ducted on fairly legitimate lines, His
promises, however, were alwayvs oral,
unlike the majority of suitors, he
never wrote a letter. Thus he de
prived his dupes of an important clew
for identification purposes, and whcn‘
he disappeared nobody had the slight
est idea as to his whereabouts, ‘
When he eame to London he worked
first of all in Solo and afterward in
the Strand, A striking feature of hn‘
methods was that he never had any
use for women without money, no
matter how prepossessing their ap
pearance. To gain confidence he fre
quently entrusted his victims with
sums of money which he asked them
to mind for him till he wanted it
Then when the moment came to carry
out hig plans he would borrow a hun
dred or two and in this way regain
his own cash with substantial inter
est, v
AVICTIM'S EXPERIENCE.
After ltving some time in London,
he appears to have made his way to
Tancashire and then Scotland, not in
the guise of a German aristocrat, but
As a Swiss walter. BEverybody who
met him was impressed by his genial
disposition, behind which he cloaked
his native caprice and cunning. No
body ever doubted his sincerity, and
his campaign was so cleverly engi
noered that when he vanished after
his usual custom, having enriched his
pockets, it was generally thought that
he had gone on some buriness en.
gagement abroad and would turn up
again ingdue course,
One of his London vietims to whom
he vuq. engaged for several months
and who found herseif very much
poorer for the attachment, gave me a
picture of Strett and his tactics,
“He seemed,” she said, “to be a
wvery decent fellow, good looking and
jolly, and the sort of man you could
trust. 1 first met him in Shaftesbury
wvenue, where he was employed as a
head walter in a restaurant. He asked
me to see him again, and I agreed to
do 80. After a while we became close
friends and appeared to spend a falr
amount of money
“When we had known each other
about a month he asked me to marry
him, but 1 thought it was a rather
rash suggestion and I told him it
would be better to walt for a little
longer, in case he changed his mind.
“Shortly afterward he told me he
had had some bad luck, as he had
put his mooey into worthless shures,
1 gympathized with him, whereupon
he appealed to me to try to help him,
1 gave him all T had, 500 pounds, ana
& week later when 1 went to eall on
him, I found he bad left his employ
men! wné wome to another part of
Wngland.
“While 1 was making inquiries 1
met three other women who were also
soarching for Mr. Suett, and 1
jearnad for the first time that he was
an impostor, and had been robbiag
gtrls wholesale.”
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*Mary's Ankle
Miss Hobbs
Mother
Peg O' My Heart
Sadie Love
Sick-A-~Bed
Speed Carr .
*Seepping Out
The Black Bag
#The Cinema Murder
The Fear Market
The Female of the Species
The Lottery Man
I'he Market of Souls
91 he Miracle Man
The Misleading Widow
*The Other Woman
{ The Restless Sex
T'he Sea Wolf
The Teeth of the Tiger
The Third Kiss \
The Thirteenth Commandment
The Valley of the Giants
The Witness for the Defense
The Young Mrs. Winthrop
Told in the Hills
Too Much Johnson
* What's Your Husband Doingd
* Whistling Jim
Why Smith Left Home
Widow by Proxy
* Thomas H. Ince Production
¢ Govmonalian Froduction